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<h1 align="center">Fink - Documentation</h1>
    <p>
This is a collection of various documents written for Fink.
Some of the documents may also be useful to people who use Mac OS X
or Darwin without Fink and want to learn about porting Unix software.
</p>
  <h3><a name="index.userdoc">User Documentation</a></h3>
    
    <p>
The current user documentation for Fink:
</p>
    <ul>
      <li><a href="users-guide/uguide.en.html">Fink User's Guide</a> -
this covers installing Fink itself, installing packages, and upgrading
to a new Fink release. It contains instructions for both the source
and the binary release.
</li>
      <li><a href="advanced/advanced.en.html">Fink Advanced Topics Guide</a> -
covers more advanced concepts than those covered in the User's Guide.</li>
      <li><a href="x11/x11.en.html">Running X11 on Darwin and Mac OS X</a> -
covers concepts, installation and launching (also intended for Darwin
and Mac OS X users in general)</li>
    </ul>
    <p>
A bunch of documents that are more complete, but slightly outdated and
no longer maintained:
</p>
    <ul>
      <li><a href="bundled/install.html">Installation and Upgrading</a> - how
to install Fink or upgrade to a new version</li>
      <li><a href="bundled/usage.html">Usage</a> - how to use Fink
and the installed software</li>
      <li><a href="readme.en.html">Fink ReadMe</a> - the ReadMe for the
source distribution</li>
      <li><a href="cvsaccess/cvs.en.html">CVS Access</a> - how to access the
Fink CVS repository to get the latest source packages between
releases</li>
    </ul>
  <h3><a name="index.developerdoc">Developer Documentation</a></h3>
    
    <ul>
      <li><a href="security/sec-policy.en.html">Security Policy Manual</a> - 
	  Mandatory read for all of those who either maintain packages in Fink or would like to add their own.</li>
      <li><a href="http://www.finkproject.org/doc/UsingFink.pdf">Using Fink: A Developer's How To</a> (2MB pdf
file) - slides from a presentation at the <a href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/macosx2002/">O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference</a> (also available as a
<a href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/presentations/macosx02/morrison_david.ppt">PowerPoint file</a>) </li>
      <li><a href="porting/porting.en.html">Porting Tips</a> - notes for porting
Unix applications to Darwin</li>
      <li><a href="quick-start-pkg/quick-start-pkg.en.html">Packaging Tutorial</a> - a complement to the Packaging Manual which focuses on real examples and introduces packaging to beginners.</li>
      <li><a href="packaging/packaging.en.html">Packaging Manual</a> - how to create and
maintain Fink packages</li>
      <li><a href="http://wiki.finkproject.org/index.php/Fink">The Fink Developer Wiki</a> - includes developer-related material that is under construction.</li>
    </ul>
  <h3><a name="index.otherdoc">Other Documents</a></h3>
    
    <ul>
      <li><a href="multilingual/multilingual.en.html">Internationalization Guide</a> - material concerning
the ongoing website
internationalization 
effort</li>
      <li><a href="netiquette/netiquette.en.html">Mailing List Netiquette</a> - how best to employ the Fink mailing lists.</li>
    </ul>
  <hr><h2>Copyright Notice</h2><p>Copyright (c) 2001 Christoph Pfisterer,
Copyright (c) 2001-2011 The Fink Project.
You may distribute this document in print for private purposes,
provided the document and this copyright notice remain complete and
unmodified. Any commercial reproduction and any online publication
requires the explicit consent of the author.</p><hr>
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